The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-29
ONE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG'S WIVES.
Now Married Michigan Man-Against
Woman Sutfrage-Her Painful Illness.

| Now Married to a Michigan Man-Agains
Woman suffrage-Her Painful Illness.
Manistee th1ich.) Special to Chicago Herald
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young. known in America a!
| Brigham Young's nineteenth wife, whose popu
lar lectures did so much toward creating senti
ment against the foul blot of Mormonism, is al
present an honored wife in Manistee Mich Ir
1882 she married M. r. Denning, of this city 6
man of sterling qualities. well known Throughout
the county a successful lumberman and stock
holder in the Manistee National Bank Her hus
band. who is fifteen years her senior, Is proud oil
his talented wife, and their married life has
been a happy one.
During a part Of her public life and since her
retirement she has had of her in valid
mother, who received all the tender attention
which affectonate daughter could bestow
until in 1883 she laid her to rest in Oak Grove
cemetery While it is we'll known that Ann
Eliza received the praise and admiration of en-
inent people during her public career, 1t may be
news to readers of the Herald to know that
aduation has not dsfigured her for domestic
life, which she now truly adorns. The respect
shown in the home by the husband to the wife
seems to be a constant revelation to her. Her
own words in regard to this subject given in
the following sentence: MY past life appears
to painfully dark page in my
world with new hopes, new aspirations and a
new happiness"
Her taste for the beautiful and artistic is dis
played in the handsome grounds which sur
round her home. The plain lawn has disap-
peared. while beautiful flowers and shrubbery
greet the eye, telling of the culture and refine
ment found in the pleasant but unpretendng
house which is now her home. Her distaste for
public life and the frauds of which she has many
times been a helpless victim have developed a
dislike for what the world terms fashionable So
ciety, but the true and tried friends of former
years, as well as the more recent, meet with a
cordial greeting and hearty welcome. Occa
sionally, through the stratagem aud tact Of
some friend. she is lead to speek OF her past lfe
which is SO full of interest to all who know her.
but her evident disraste for the subject prevents
further questioning Even the rrepressble
Unr1td find
Guilty in evolving material enough at one inter
view to satisfy the demands of curiosity.
The complete change from active public work
to private life does not detract from the interest
which she still feels in all the leading questions
of the day. and the fact that her husband be-
longs to the party now in power does not make
her one whit less Republican. Delegates from
the Woman's Suffrage party do not understand
why every thoughtful woman cannot indorse
their platform, and with the persistency charac-
terlstic OF their sex have labored with Mrs Dem
ming. and have wasted much valuable time and
energy in trying to convince her ladyship OF the
error Of her political ways.
Some time since that champion of woman's
rights, Mrs Cougar. entered the home of this
quiet woman and proceeded to argue the suf-
frage question in the most approved style, end
ing her plea by saying: Mrs. Denning, you are
far TOO sensible a woman to see this question in
any other light" The reply came promptly:
Mrs. Cougar. have tried to believe in suffrage
for woman. but after a most thorough investiga-
ton and some experience cannot indorse your
views"
1t is we'll known that during the latter part of
her public life, she suffered greatly from
GUS dyspepsia, brought upon her by the severe
mental and physical labor which came to her in
the line of duty. Physicians tried in vain to
cure the terrible disease During the past eight
years all solid fluid nourishment proved so
distressing that amount of pepsin equal to
the fcod was taken at each meal, thus relieving
the stomach of it's natural functions, and in
some degree avoiding the painful discomforts at
tending the disease. Discouraged and wel.-nigh
hopeless she determined to try the hunger cure
On July 10 Mrs. Dennine began her fast. taking
nothing but the simple liquid nutrient pre-
scribed by the physician and drinking plentifully
of Her weight at this time
was one hundred and twenty pounds. During
the first five days she suffered greatly from
nausea. but felt particular desire for food
After the first five days had passed she rode out
in her carriage every day. according TO the in
struction of her physician. She became very
weak and on the morning of the sixteenth day of
fasting she broke her fast by eating a small piece
of melon. Her weight at this time one
hundred pounds. Since breaking her fast, she
has eaten nothing up to date but watermelon
and muskmelon. feeling discomfort whatever.
and increasing eight pounds in weight. She as
sures her friends that her health is much better
now than for many years past Although she is
not entirely cured, she feels confident that she
is on the road to health.